97th ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10, 2012)

Wednesday, August 8, 2012: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

D137, Oregon Convention Center

1:30 PM

COS 105-1

Does variation in the strength of negative density dependence explain differences in species diversity among tropical forests?
Liza S. Comita, The Ohio State University; The Center for Tropical Forest Science Working Group, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

1:50 PM

COS 105-2

Climate but not disturbance history controls grassland plant community structure
Eric G. Lamb, University of Saskatchewan; Digit Guedo, University of Saskatchewan

2:10 PM

COS 105-3

Patch dynamics and the structure of mutualistic networks
Luis J. Gilarranz, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC; Jordi Bascompte, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC

2:30 PM

COS 105-4

Effect of nutrient dispersal on diversity and resource use efficiency in a marine meta-ecosystem experiment
Nils Guelzow, Institute for chemistry and biology of the marine evironment (ICBM); Yanis Wahlen, Institute for chemistry and biology of the marine evironment (ICBM); Robert Ptacnik, Universität Wien; Helmut Hillebrand, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

2:50 PM

COS 105-5

A new metric for trait-based investigations of niche assembly
Rafael D'Andrea, University of Michigan; Annette M. Ostling, University of Michigan; György Barabás, University of Chicago

3:10 PM

COS 105-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 105-6

Predation resistance does not trade off with competitive ability in early-colonizing aquatic Diptera
Ebony Murrell, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Steven A. Juliano, Illinois State University

3:40 PM

COS 105-7

Bottom-up forces and recurrent disturbance shape arthropod community composition and diversity in a tallgrass prairie ecosystem
Mari Frances Pesek, University of Kansas; Bryan L. Foster, University of Kansas

4:00 PM

COS 105-8

Community-level consequences of cannibalism
Jan Ohlberger, University of Washington; Øystein Langangen, University of Oslo; Nils Chr. Stenseth, University of Oslo; L. Asbjørn Vøllestad, University of Oslo

4:20 PM

COS 105-9

The relative importance of resource availability and habitat structure for bird communities in the Southern Appalachians
Allen H. Hurlbert, University of North Carolina

4:40 PM

COS 105-10

A habitat- forming facilitation cascade regulates biodiversity and trophic structure in a tree-epiphyte system
Christine Angelini, University of Florida; Brian R. Silliman, University of Florida

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